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No, I would not become a nurse again, I love medicine but nurses have become expendable punching bags. From a perspective of an older new grad, I was 38, it has been horrible. I look older so people naturally assumed I was more experienced and trea...

Those 4 hours are education. I have never gotten overtime pay for education. It is charged as base pay only. So if I work a 36 hour week and put in an 8 hr education training, no overtime. Also overtime is anything over 80 hrs in a 2 week pay per...

Hokas, hands down the best shoes.

My first year was on a med-surg floor as well. It was horrible for me. I then switched to critical care and pretty much started all over and it was horribly hard as well. I enjoyed other aspects about the switch, but the learning curve in the firs...

Your first patient sounds like she was withdrawing from alcohol and not delirious. Because of DTs, I have worked with hundreds of alcohol withdrawal patients in critical care and I have only met one who wasn't an jerk during the withdrawal period. ...

I don't think that NETY intentionally exists... See I had a chicken coup with ten bantams (smaller type chickens). 1 Hen decided to get broody and sit on her eggs, and I let her. One day, while I wasn't around, one baby chick hatched, and for whate...

I'm just curious as to what they changed, what they kept. Like I know that HCA hospitals tend to use Meditech. If our current program is not Meditch, will they switch it? Any info would help. Thanks

I have issues with the soap because it is antibacterial and overly drying. I would ask about using Cetaphil instead.

If I have plenty of blood, then until the tube stop sucking blood in. If they are a hard stick, then to the bottom of the label. But if I had a vein blow or something, I try to send what I got and see if they make me redraw. So far they haven't.

Ditto. Sour Lemons. BTW what is "registry status"? Is that PRN or something?

Maternal Newborn (60 items) 55.0% – 65.0% Level 1; 66.7% – 78.3% Level 2; 80.0% – 100.0% Level 3 So 60 questions although there may be extra (not worth any points) questions. It was my easiest subject and I scored 93%, so i would study the hec...

A friend of mine and I both got job offers before we graduated to a state we were moving to. It was a faster process to pursue licensure there rather than where we graduated from and having it transferred. It's done all the time, btw.

I worked in a Magnet hospital and I typically had 6 patients on my med-surg teli floor (and we were the good floor, some had 8). Sometimes I had a PCT, Sometimes not. We had to do everything, including drawing blood. What you described sounded bey...

Here in Savannah, you definitely have a shot in our Med-Surg Intermediate and that is a gateway to our Level 1 trauma ICU. There is a shorttage here.

Super love your post. I have had 28 surgeries. I have adverse reactions to everything but Dilaudid. And do you know when the last time I have had Dilaudid? Yea, neither do I because it has been years. But I know what it is like to have pain so ...

Fueled by accessibility and high demand, medication theft-coined "pharmaceutical diversion" by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-has escalated in recent years. The National Drug Intelligence Center reported that $184 million in prescription dr...

I hope you read the whole article and not just what was quoted, because there is sooo much more. Also most pain scripts are not "recycled", they are stolen from someone who rightfully was using all of it.

Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause Cracking down on highly effective pain medications will make patients suffer for no good reason By Maia Szalavitz on May 10, 2016 "But the simple reality is this: According ...

I did my 6 weeks of orientation with flying colors. I thought I was doing well, learning every day, and getting better. I was a floor nurse for only a year before the transition and I am 40 years old so I don't look like a new grad at all, even tho...

Thanks so much. I only give my age and experience to explain a perception that being older, I should be more experienced but I am not.

Monday. Old school nurse who works on the step down unit. Not for me though, not my thing.

BTW, I don't know how long it takes seasoned nurses to pass meds. I'm a newbie and it takes me 2 hours to pass meds to 6 patients. Mostly because that is when they ask for something else while I am there and I do a quick physical assessment as well...

Definitely slower, foooooor sure! But the whole system is to eliminate medical errors. Not all drugs are in the "Pyx-sis", just the more common ones. If we have a new patient and they take a drug more often than once and it is not in the Pyxis the...

Better advice in my opinion is this........ find a prestigious hospital you want to work for and then find the college that does their clinicals there. :)

Video on Pyxis.